Shirt.



S. Y. GOLDBERG.'

SHIRT.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-3.1914.

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SIMON Y. GOIJDBRG, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

SHIRT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 18, 1916.

Application filed August 3, 1914. Serial No. 854,673.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, SIMON Y. GOLDBERG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shirts; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in shirts and has for its object to so construct a shirt that a pair of ordinary Suspenders may be worn under the shirt with only the button-hole-equipped ends of the tabs extending outside of the shirt for engagement with the buttons on the band of the trousers, thereby entirely concealing the Suspenders.

To the above end, the invention consists of the novel construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and defined in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the invention, like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 isa view in front elevation of a shirt, trousers and Suspenders, said shirt being made in accordance with my invention, some parts being broken away; Fig. 2 is a detail view showing a portion of the shirt surrounding one of the suspender passages; Fig. 3 is a view corresponding to Fig. 2, showing a portion of a pair of Suspenders with the tabs thereof extending through the suspender passage, in a position to be buttoned to thev trousers; Fig. 4 is a view of the parts shown in Fig. 2, from the inside of the shirt; Fig.-

5 is a view corresponding to Fig. 3, from the inside of the shirt; and Fig. 6 is a detail view, in perspective, with some parts sec? tioned on the line m6, of Fig. 4.

The numeral 1 indicates a pair of trousers having secured to the inner face of its waist band the customary buttons 2 for securing the Suspenders 3 to the trousers.

The shirt, embodying the invention, is in dicated as an entirety by the numeral 4. As shown, the Suspenders 3 are worn inside of the shirt 4L and only` the button-holeequipped ends vof the tabs 5k thereof extend through the shirt in the vicinity of the buttons 2.

To cover the openings in the shirt through which the suspender tabs 5 project, said shirt is made in the following manner: On each side of the front of the shirt, and in the center of the back thereof, said shirt is cut to form pairs of parallel, vertical slits. The material between these pairs of slits affords vertically extended box plaits 6, the edges of which are turned in and hemmed at 7, as best shown in Fig. 6. The material at the outer edges of each pair of the slits is slightly drawn together and connected by stitching, in line with the hems 7, to a patch lining 8. This patch lining 8 has cut therein a vertically-extended intermediate slot 9, through which the suspender tabs 5 may be passed. The pairs of tabs 5, fromsthe slots 9, are extended in opposite directions between the shirt and plaits 6 into positions where they may be attached to the buttons 2. The suspender tabs 5 emerge from the plaits 6 below the upper edge of the waist band so that they are entirely invisible, as well as the main body portions of the Suspenders. l/Vhen the suspender tabs 5 are detached from the trousers 1, the same may be attached to buttons 10 sewed to the inside of the plaits, in order that said Suspenders may keep their relative positions with the shirt. It is, of course, understood that instead of inserting the suspender tabs through the slot line the same may be inserted between the top of the lining 8 and the body of the shirt.

Vhat I claim is:

1. A shirt having in its body at or near the waist line parallel slits which extend lengthwise thereof for the passage of suspender tips therethrough, the body of the shirt between said slits being folded in reverse directions to form plaits that completely cover the slitsrthroughout their entire length, and means for holding the plaits over the slits.

2. A shirt, having therein parallel slits, a plait, formed of the material between said slits and arranged to cover the same, and means connecting the outer edge portions of said slits and slightly drawing the same together, under said plait.

3. A shirt, having therein parallel slits, a plait, formed of the material between said slits and arranged to cover the same, and a to form a plait that completely covers the l0 patch lining connecting the outer edge porslit throughout its entire length, and means tions of said slits and slightly drawing the for holding the plait over the slit.

saine together, under said plait, said patch In testimony whereof I afIiX my signature lining having a slit eut therein. in presence o f two witnesses.

4L. A shirt having in its body a slit 'which SIMON Y. GOLDBERG. extends lengthwise thereof for the passage Witnesses: of suspender tips therethrough, the body of ALICE L. KING, the shirt being folded at one side of the slit HARRY D. KILGORE.

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